[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 157 (Wednesday, September 28, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5401]
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SA 5944. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe)
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for military activities of the
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel
strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:
SEC. 1254. STABILITY ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT.
(a) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) United States engagement with Taiwan should include
actions, activities, and programs that mutually benefit the
United States and Taiwan such as--
(A) people-to-people exchanges;
(B) bilateral and multilateral economic cooperation; and
(C) assisting Taiwan's efforts to participate in
international institutions;
(2) the United States should pursue new engagement
initiatives with Taiwan, such as--
(A) enhancing cooperation on science and technology;
(B) joint infrastructure development in third countries;
(C) renewable energy and environmental sustainability
development; and
(D) investment screening coordination;
(3) the United States should expand its financial support
for the Global Cooperation and Training Framework, and
encourage like-minded countries to co-sponsor workshops, to
showcase Taiwan's capacity to contribute to solving global
challenges in the face of the Government of the PRC's
campaign to isolate Taiwan in the international community;
(4) to advance the goals of the April 2021 Department of
State guidance expanding unofficial United States-Taiwan
contacts, the United States, Taiwan, and Japan should aim to
host Global Cooperation and Training Framework workshops
timed to coincide with plenaries and other meetings of
international organizations;
(5) the United States should support efforts to engage
regional counterparts in Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues on
the stability across the Taiwan Strait, which are important
for increasing strategic awareness amongst all parties and
the avoidance of conflict;
(6) bilateral confidence-building measures and crisis
stability dialogues between the United States and the PRC are
important mechanisms for maintaining deterrence and stability
across the Taiwan Strait and should be prioritized; and
(7) the United States and the PRC should prioritize the use
of a fully operational military crisis hotline to provide a
mechanism for the leadership of the two countries to
communicate directly in order to quickly resolve
misunderstandings that could lead to military escalation.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations for the Global
Cooperation and Training Framework.--There are authorized to
be appropriated for the Global Cooperation and Training
Framework under the Economic Support Fund authorized under
section 531 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2346), $6,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2022 through
2025, which may be expended for
(c) trainings and activities that increase Taiwan's
economic and international integration.
(c) Supporting Confidence Building Measures and Stability
Dialogues.--
(1) Annual report.--Not later than 180 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the
Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of
Defense, shall submit an unclassified report, with a
classified annex, to the appropriate committees of Congress
that includes--
(A) a description of all military-to-military dialogues and
confidence-building measures between the United States and
the PRC during the 10-year period ending on the date of the
enactment of this Act;
(B) a description of all bilateral and multilateral
diplomatic engagements with the PRC in which cross-Strait
issues were discussed during such 10-year period, including
Track 1.5 and Track 2 dialogues;
(C) a description of the efforts in the year preceding the
submission of the report to conduct engagements described in
subparagraphs (A) and (B); and
(D) a description of how and why the engagements described
in subparagraphs (A) and (B) have changed in frequency or
substance during such 10-year period.
(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are authorized
to be appropriated for the Department of State, and, as
appropriate, the Department of Defense, no less than
$2,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2022 through 2025,
which shall be used to support existing Track 1.5 and Track 2
strategic dialogues facilitated by independent nonprofit
organizations in which participants meet to discuss cross-
Strait stability issues.
(d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate;
(2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate;
(3) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate;
(4) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives;
(5) the Committee on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives; and
(6) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives.
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